Energia Serial Port Issues on Linux

[JimmyLee 0]

Can anyone help on this issue please ?

 

On Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, I am unable to get the serial port to work with Energia 16  and MSP430G2.

I have exactly followed the install instructions for Linux : http://energia.nu/guide/guide_linux/

including setting udev rules.

 

The MSP430G2 can be programmed ok however any attempt to open the serial port monitor causes Energia to hang up/freeze.

 

FYI, I also have an Arduino board with the latest Arduino IDE which has no problems with serial output on this same evironment (and setting that up was a breeze).

 

It's a pity that getting Energia to work on Linux is so hard.

 

I have seen previous postings on this issue suggest a custom build of the cdc_acm driver; is that really necessary given Arduino works fine ?

 

Below is the output of dmesg:

 

[42439.494174] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[42439.609479] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0451, idProduct=f432
[42439.609484] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[42439.609487] usb 1-1.2: Product: Texas Instruments MSP-FET430UIF
[42439.609489] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Texas Instruments
[42439.609491] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: E7FF4D53F4181B50
[42449.663054] hid-generic 0003:0451:F432.0004: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed: -1
[42449.663078] hid-generic 0003:0451:F432.0004: timeout initializing reports
[42449.663362] hid-generic 0003:0451:F432.0004: hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.01 Device [Texas Instruments Texas Instruments MSP-FET430UIF] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.2/input1
[42449.758556] cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.0: This device cannot do calls on its own. It is not a modem.
[42449.758564] cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.0: No union descriptor, testing for castrated device
[42449.758591] cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[42449.760730] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[42449.760735] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters